I just found some photos on airliners.net claiming to be of EADS D-FMBB, shot in 2003. But the camo doesn’t match, the loop antenna is not installed on FMBB, the bulge on the rear of FMBB’s cowl is not there, etc. Is this another EADS airframe or someone else’s aircraft?
The real D-FMBB.
“The other one”.
And here a month later without insignia.
T J
By: Kenneth - 10th April 2010 at 23:26
This is what it looked like while on static display at the Augsburg airshow in July 2008. As far as I know it hasn’t been displayed in public since then.
By: JägerMarty - 10th April 2010 at 23:03
Thank god those white 1 markings have been painted over!
By: CeBro - 10th April 2010 at 17:56
Le Bourget?
🙂
Cees
By: woodbridge10 - 9th April 2010 at 22:36
Will it be at Le……………….
i had to ask !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By: Kenneth - 9th April 2010 at 22:13
The “other one” does not comprise the remains of the first D-FMBB (they went somewhere else) but is a (rather rare) Hispano HA1109 which sat outside at MBB/DASA/EADS premises in Augsburg, and was then converted and restored to a static Bf 109. It was first displayed for some time at a museum in Munich in overall green primer, then it went back to Manching and received the depicted camouflage scheme (and travelled by road to various airshows). It is now painted overall silver of all things. The reasons for dithering with the paint schemes this way are completely beyond me. Its identity can probably be determined by consulting preservedaxisaircraft.com
Mange hilsener til Norge!
By: Bruce - 9th April 2010 at 17:09
I seem to recall that this is the static airframe, which was a rebuild of the original D-FMBB which crashed.
Bruce
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April 9, 2010 at 5:01 pm